From: "John Lee" johnleemk@gmail.com
What's the point of that? It would be better to wait until you've found the sources before you start writing...
Citing sources should be easy because they should be the actual source of the information, which you will already know since it's whatever you just finished reading.
This strikes me as a rather inconvenient process.
It's known as "work." Writing is work. Writing an encyclopedia is work.
Perhaps other people work at things differently, but I rarely directly refer to sources when starting an article unless I know little about it. The only exception is when I have sources and am not sure what articles could use them, in which case I hunt through the book/whatever for things I could write about. Otherwise, when I want to write about something in general (especially when it's on impulse, normally after "what? this is a redlink?"), it's often inefficient and frustrating to hunt down a source.
Why is it any more "convenient" to do this in the main article space than in your own user space?
Call me an eventualist,
I don't call this eventualism.
I call this rehearsing in front of the audience.
I call this running out into the street naked and telling the policeman "But I was just about to put my clothes on."